{"id":189414,"date":"2025-01-23T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-to-benefit-from-expanded-access-to-affordable-energy-thanks-to-increased-power-transmission-with-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:33:07","slug":"zambia-to-benefit-from-expanded-access-to-affordable-energy-thanks-to-increased-power-transmission-with-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-to-benefit-from-expanded-access-to-affordable-energy-thanks-to-increased-power-transmission-with-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia to Benefit From Expanded Access to Affordable Energy Thanks to Increased Power Transmission With Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Lusaka \u2014 new World Bank backed project, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.worldbank.org\/en\/projects-operations\/project-detail\/P508898\" rel=\"noopener\">Zambia &#8211; Tanzania Interconnector Project (ZTIP)<\/a>, will enable Zambia to access more sustainable and affordable energy to power its economy and boost job creation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">The project will benefit existing and prospective users of electricity services in Zambia and throughout the Southern Africa region through improved security of supply and the potential to reduce the cost of service through increased electricity trade. This will also enable electricity access&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230037.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka \u2014 new World Bank backed project, the Zambia &#8211; Tanzania Interconnector Project (ZTIP), will enable Zambia to access more sustainable and affordable energy to power its economy and boost job creation. The project will benefit existing and prospective users of electricity services in Zambia and throughout the Southern Africa region through improved security of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[6450,11579,258,256,8373,7424,12010,7393,257,7047,254,746,16187,4709,881],"class_list":["post-189414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-access","tag-affordable","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benefit","tag-energy","tag-expanded","tag-increased","tag-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanzania","tag-transmission","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}